Sentences with phrase «adaptation policies»

The document also recommends ways to integrate gender into climate change adaptation policies and activities.

Additionally, the capacity to develop a national adaptation policy is considered a greater challenge than finding the necessary funds.

Importantly, planning for adaptation policies by coastal policy planners and decision - makers requires a pragmatic approach.

You can fear global warming and favor adaptation policies rather than emissions cuts because you think adaptation is more cost - effective and technologically practical.

It also looks at society's vulnerability to these impacts and at the development of adaptation policies and the underlying knowledge base.

In particular, we focus on adaptation policy and finance under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, vulnerability assessments, capacity building and community - based adaptation.

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Yet policy - makers need to understand the limitations of mitigation for reducing vulnerabilities, and give more urgent consideration to broader adaptation policies — such as improved management of coastal zones and water resources — that will enhance societal resilience to future climate impacts regardless of their cause.

But she says adaptation policies for the Arctic must address the well - being of mainly indigenous peoples who live in areas directly impacted by climate change.

She was also the climate adaptation policy analyst at the Center for Clean Air Policy, director of flood management policy for American Rivers, and water program manager at the Georgia Conservancy.

· Assessing existing adaptation policies to ensure they are designed to avoid aggravating existing inequalities and to support the most vulnerable.

Namely, we should stop narrowly defining adaptation policy as only addressing anthropogenic (aka man made) climate change impacts and instead define it as addressing resilience to extreme climate and weather, regardless of the cause.

Recognition has begun to sink in, but most adaptation policy discussions in recent years are still found towards the margins, largely in international climate negotiations or in select U.S. states and local communities.

The state will intensify its climate change mitigation efforts, create new adaptation policies, address resilience issues, and continue to provide the leadership for others.

Assessing climate change risks to the natural environment to facilitate cross-sectoral adaptation policy

Carlo Carraro, Francesco Bosello and Enrica De Cian look at what can be achieved with adaptation policies.

A first step towards planning adaptation policies of SLR would be the projection of SLR at the local level at different time scales and at its different scenarios, as devised by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Robert R.M. Verchick, a Loyola University law professor who worked on climate change adaptation policy at the Environmental Protection Agency under Obama, said federal leadership is essential.

Robert R.M. Verchick, a Loyola University law professor who worked on climate change adaptation policy at the Environmental Protection Agency under Obama, said federal leadership is essential.

The document draws on expected impacts of climate change across ecosystems as a basis for development of adaptation policy.

Calling data «frightening,» Jim Yong Kim pledges to push for climate change mitigation and adaptation policies

In the example of climate change, Pielke Jr says, many researchers have taken one of two sides: backing either mitigation policies to reduce greenhouse - gas emissions, or adaptation policies to deal with climate change as it occurs.

Christopher Flavelle covers climate change and adaptation policy, and the business implications of those policies, for Bloomberg News.

Their Responses to Climate Change website addresses these concerns and includes an Adaptation Policy and Plan.

Through this 2 year project the RUAF Foundation supports the integration of Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture and Forestry (UPAF) in the UN-HABITAT Cities and Climate Change Initiative, and in local and provincial city climate change mitigation and adaptation policies and programmes in Bobo Dioulasso (Burkina Faso), Kesbewa / Western Province (Sri Lanka) and Kathmandu (Nepal).

The RUAF Foundation supports the integration of urban and peri-urban agriculture and forestry in the UN-HABITAT Cities and Climate Change Initiative, and in local and provincial city climate change mitigation and adaptation policies and programmes in Bobo Dioulasso (Burkina Faso), Kesbewa / Western Province (Sri Lanka) and Kathmandu (Nepal).

We already have most, if not all, of the necessary technology and economic policy options, but we lack sufficient public and political will to implement them — as well as helpful climate change adaptation policies — fast enough.